Recent content by Chas

I'd been wondering how the wildfires were going to affect waterfowl breeding up north. Great time lapse aerial video shows how it affected the spring survey and you can read this biologists views on how it will affect the ducks...

Killing time waiting for the season to start, running some trends reports at http://flyways.us/regulations-and-harvest/harvest-trends Pins here in Indiana seem to follow a couple years of good harvest, followed by a couple bad, then a couple more good... if that holds true I'm hoping to bag...

New harvest report was released yesterday... http://flyways.us/content/hunter-activity-and-harvest-report-2013-14-and-2014-15-seasons-released

http://flyways.us/content/spring-survey-takes-60th-year Survey crews started flying earlier this week. This site posts updates very frequently so they should really start to roll in soon. Not a lot to be optimistic about in first post though. You can see all the posts as they come int at...

Check out reports from the Canada Goose survey that just wrapped up in Ungava Peninsula. Goose numbers looking a lot like 2012, which was a pretty good year. Lots of water (and ice) there too. http://flyways.us/status-of-waterfowl/pilot-reports/ungava-peninsula

http://flyways.us/flight-log/southern-and-central-alberta/snapshot-canadian-prairies Check out this blog for some great aerial shots of what the duck survey pilots are seeing in prairie Canada. All this water should be good news come fall. Most of the survey crews are finishing up right...

Flyways.us has recently updated their harvest app to include data from last hunting season. Check it out at http://flyways.us/regulations-and-harvest/harvest-trends. You can drill down to a certain species in a certain state or flyway and see how many have been harvested every year since '61...

At this point, you're probably up to speed on the dates and bag limits where you are, but if you're planning to put on some miles and hit up some out of state hunts this fall, you can go to http://www.flyways.us/state-links to quick and easy jump right to the pages on the state DNR sites that...

Many of you probably know the FWS's Status of Waterfowl report for 2013 was released last week, but have you watched the video version of the report yet? Really does a good job of hitting on the high points in six minutes so you don't have to spend a lot of time searching through a long...

The 2012-14 duck stamp goes on sale next Friday! Always gets me excited for the next season. I'll plan to snag a couple, so I have an extra for the collection book. Good to know that money is buying up more wetlands. More details on the first day of sale at http://flyways.us/node/26285...

Latest report on white-fronted goose populations was released today... numbers from survey of Prairie canada show in increase of 12%! Find all the details in the full report at http://www.flyways.us/status-of-waterfowl

Check out the goldeneye on this year's duck stamp contest winner picked this weekend. Artwork and a link to contest photo gallery at http://flyways.us/regulations-and-ha...al-regulations. Who's gonna buy one next year? For $15 I'm in... anything to buy up some more duck habitat.

http://www.flyways.us/regulations-and-harvest/harvest-trends Getting ready for opening day... and checking out the latest harvest trends. You can get the stats for your state or flyway at the link above... even break it out by species. Hoping the upward trend continues here in Indiana.. been...

If you've bagged a banded duck or goose and wondered where it was banded at, you can find out at http://flyways.us/surveys-and-monitoring/banding-and-marking-programs/bands-across-america ... or if you just want to get a sense of migration patterns for various species... the data goes back to...

..Joe Hautman, capturing his fourth ever win! Take a look at the winning artwork and view contest footage at http://www.flyways.us.